A Quotes
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“A few years later I learned that she had a kid. I did the math and came to the obvious conclusion that I was the dad. But she never tried to contact me. Instead, she told people that the birth of her son was a miracle. A virgin birth. The strangest thing is that people believed her!” God shook his head in disbelief.”
Source: Operation Cosmic Teapot
“A few years later, in Inukjuak, I learned that SFU is the Inuit texting acronym for "snowmobile fucked up," and that POOS is the acronym for "passed out on snowmobile.”
Source: At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic
“A few years later, Raylan and I went our separate ways. He joined the military and I started the science program at the university. It was after our breakup that the thread of my life, woven from Fate’s loom, finally started to take shape. And it was because of science that I met him. The one.”
Source: Fated to Love You
“A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.”
“A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.”
“A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.”
“A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.”
“A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.”
“A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.”
“A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.”
“A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii”
“A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
“A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.”
Source: Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues
“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
“A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.”
Source: On Angels and Rabbit Holes
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
“A fiction character can
make or break a book.
A real character can
make or break a life.”
“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.”
“A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.”
“A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.”
“A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.”
“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!”
“A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.”
“A field is empty, but if you put in the effort to grow something then you will have a garden. And that’s life. Give something, something will come back. Give nothing, nothing will come back. To grow a flower is a miracle: it means you can grow more. Remember that a flower is not just a flower, it is the start of a whole garden.”
Source: The Happiest Man on Earth
“A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.”
“A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”
“A field Marshall is born, not made!”
“A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.”
“A field of glory is a field for all.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton
“A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped the empty can into the recycling bin and leaned against the kitchen peninsula, grinning like an idiot. "Two of the three. And I could probably scrounge up some strawberry jam, if you're desperate." "I'm never desperate," Tod said, only his voice hadn't come from my phone. I whirled around to see the reaper standing behind me, still holding his cell. "But for the record, I prefer apricot." "Yuck. Nobody likes apricot jam.”
“A field which feeds you, a river which gives you water are much holier than all other so-called holy places!”
“A fiendish love... an unearthly love... those who feel such a love are numbed to their very souls by this mysterious pleasure while they struggle with endless frustration, censured by the pangs of conscience of their boundless crime”
Source: Venus in the Blind Spot
“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”
“A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.”
“A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds.”
“A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.”
“A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.”
Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis
“A fierce wolf is greater than a cowardly lion.”
“A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.”
Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther
“A fiery soul, which working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
A daring pilot in extremity;
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
He sought the storms...”
“A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.”
“A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.”
Source: Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words
“A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl”
“A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. The nonviolent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!”
“A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest!”
“A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.”
“A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.”
Source: Round My Library Fire: A Book about Books
“A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.”
Source: Character